No. 35.— 1887.] 



TIRUKKETI'SVARAM. 



with a translation, for the correctness of which Phillips 

 Mutaliyar, the Kachcheri Interpreter, is chiefly responsible, 

 of a song sung by Suntaramurtti Nayanar in the sixth 

 century : — 



1. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram! who knowest 

 the past, present, and future ! who, clothed with the skin of 

 the elephant, adorned with the bones of the dead, and armed 

 with the trident, ridest on the bull ! — The thirty-three mil- 

 lions of gods do worship thee. 



2. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram ! who, anointed 

 with holy ashes, and with thy black neck encircled by the 

 hide of the elephant, dwellest on the banks of the milky sea 

 with thy wife whose girdle out-flashes the lightning ! 



3. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram ! thou whom 

 all divine beings and holy men adore ! who wearest the 

 crescent on thy head and the serpent around thy neck, and 

 dwellest at Matoddam by the sea of many ships ! 



4. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram ! Three-eyed 

 one ! who reignest on the banks of Palavi, which throws up 

 heavy waves near Matoddam, where beetles with beautiful 

 wings make music ! 



5. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram ! who removest 

 the sins of thy servants and livest with thy Avife Umatevi 

 in the beautiful palace at Matoddam near the sea, which is 

 surrounded by beautiful golden flowers ! 



6. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram ! who cleansest 

 all the sins of thy servants and grantest to them holiness, 

 and dwellest with thy beautiful wife Umatevi on the banks 

 of Palavi at Matoddam near the sea abounding in pearls ! 



7. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram ! who removest 

 all the bodily diseases of thy servants ! thou who dwellest 

 at Matoddam near the sky-bound sea with thy wife Uma- 

 tevi, whose words are sweet as nectar ! 



8. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram ! who with thy 

 wife Umatevi reignest on the banks of Palavi at Matoddam, 

 where beetles, drunk with honey, dance ! 



9. thou who dwellest at Tirukketisvaram ! thou who art 



